Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-02-09
WDN BY 4 PERTINENT STORY.

timber.-Ne,0 York Tribune.
WON BY A PERTINENT STORY.
A few days ago Congressman Allen, of
Mississippi, who is nothing if not humor-
list, called upon the President and asked
for the appointment of friend to succeed
a Republican who had been in office many
dent that he had told his people when max
the canvass in 1884 that if Democrat was
elected President the Republicans would
all be turned out, and he now asked that
something be done to enable him to carry
out his pledges. The President was not in
clined to be at all communicative. He was
anxious to change the subject and talk about
civil service reform. After about half an
hours conversation, Mr.. Allen grew some
what tired Of the situation, and turning
to Mr.. Cleveland in a good-natured way,
said:
"N1r. President, this reminds me of a
story which once happened in my State.
There was wealthy planter who, after ac-
cumulating good sized fortune, died quite
suddenly. He had a number of children
who, of course, expected to come into pos
session of the estate. They had looked
forward with some pleasure, to when the
courts would set aside to each heir his re-
spective share. It was the old story of the
settlement of estates. The will was con-
tested. Several trips to town and two or
three trials before the Probate Court eX-
hausted the patience of the heirs. The
prospects of receiving their share of the es-
tate within a reasonable time was fast fad
ing into the dim and misty distance.
One day one of the sons was met on the
highway when returning from court by
neighboring planter, who had been the
friend of the deceased father. He asked
the son how he was coming on with his
case.
"The case was continued again to-day"
he replied. "Ths is the ninth time have
gone to the court with the hope of getting
the matter settled, but it seems l can do
nothing. 1t has caused me great deal of
trouble and expense, and when | think OF
it seriously | often wish the old man had
never died."
The President saw the point, and Aliens
man was appointed the next day.
CoURTING.-Selectt the girl. Agree with
the girls father in politics and the mother
in religion. If you have rival keep and
eye on him if he is a WidoWer keep two
eyes on him. Don't swear to the girl that
YOU have no bad habits. It will be enough
for you to say that you never heard your
self snore in your sleep. Don't put too much
sweet stuff on paper; if you do, you will
hear it read in after years, when your wife
has same special purpose in intiicting on
you the severest punishment known to
married man.
Go home at n reasonable hour in the
evening. Don't wait until the girl has to
throw her soul into yaWn that she can't
cover with both hands. A little thing ike
that might cause GOODNESS at the very be-
ginning of the game. In cold weather finish
saying good night in the house. Don't
stretch it all the way to the front gate, and
thus Law the foundation for future asthma,
bronchitis, neuralgia, and chronic catarrh,
to help worry the girl to death after she
has married you.
Don't lie about your financial condition.
It is very annoying to bride who has pic
tured for her ancestral halls, to learn too
late that you expect her to ask bald-head-
I'd parent who has been uniformly kind to
her, to take you in out of the cold.
. Don't be too soft. Don't say: These lit
hands shall never do a stroke of work when
they are mine,' and "you shall have moth
ing to do in our home all day long but chirp
to the canaries," as if any sensible woman
could be happy fooling away time in that
sort of style and a girl has fine reten-
tive memory for soft things and silly prom
ises of courtship, and occasionally in after
years, when she is washing the dinner dish
es, or patching the west end of your trous-
ers, she will remind you of them in cold
sarcastic tone.-N. Y. mat.
THOROUGHBRED DOGs.-One popularity
of hounds, to which the friend who spoke
with me the other day about the experience
of the animal painter, Alexander Pope, ad-
verted, struck me as very curious. AL
though these dogs are so intelligent that
they will come out of the kennel, one at a
time, when called by name, yet if dog is
taken out for a short time, say fifteen min
utes, he has to be protected by the kennel
man on taking him back or he would be
torn to pieces by his fellows. This is said to
be due not to jealousy but to inability to
recognize the returning absentee. These
hunting dogs, such as belong to the Myopla
pack-are always called by the name, not
like settlers and pointers by Whistling. They
are governed by the whip, which is indis-
pensable for keeping them up to the mark.
Some curious facts in relation to the scent
of sporting dogs were told me. On first
lighting, the quail, for example, gives out
no scent, and on one occasion, MIR. ropes
setter could not for some time find a bird
which had dropped, but actually stepped on
it before becoming aware of its presence.
The dog could smell the tracks of the run
ming bird, but was unable to smell the bird
itself AS illustrating the intelligence OF an
experienced hunting dog, Mr.. Pope's ex-
periments are interesting. TO get a picture
of a setter in the act of pointing, he tied
live quail to tree but though two dogs
were taken, one after another, neither OF
them would "point." He then brought out
pup who had never been shot over, and 1T
at once pointed the bird. The greenhorn
would do what the old dog would not
Boston Post
SLAVE HUNTING IN AFRICA.-There
seems to be reason to fear that slave hunt
ing is again largely on the increase IN
central Africa. That was Of course, fore
told as a certain consequence OF the aban-
donment of the Soudan. Now we hear
that the station at Stanley Falls, on the
upper Congo, has been abandoned under
the pressure Of Arab hostilities, instigated,
it is believed by the veteran slave hunter
Tippu Tib, whose operations in this very
region have been described by Mr.. Stanley.
That gentleman came up with a single car
avan of $500 slaves, mostly women and
children and he calculates that for every
slave eau light six had been killed in the
foray. The terrible sufferings of the desert
marches, which the caravans have common
ly to make, cause of course, a frightful waste
of life. Still the difficulty remains as to
what becomes of these vast droves of hu-
man beings. One gentleman states that
10000 slaves passed his house on their way
to the east coast in single year. The east
cost is closely watched by our ships, and
only a chance cargo is supposed to escape
their vigilance. Where did the 10000 60
to-,T. Jttn1eS Gazette.